On July 11, 2024 3:48:42 PM EDT, Tom Lane <tgl@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >H <agents@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes: >> Understood but how should formulate the initdb statement to >accomplish what I want on pgsql 16 since the syntax I used for pgsql 13 >does not work in my container? > >You still haven't shown us the actual error message, so we're all >just guessing. > >I will offer a guess though. This *should* work, since Rocky 9 >is a direct descendant of RHEL/CentOS 7. The only reason I can >think why it wouldn't is that you haven't installed the OS package >that defines en_US.UTF-8. Try doing "locale -a" and see if >en_US.UTF-8 is among the listed locales. > >On my RHEL8 box, it looks like glibc-locale-source is what >provides most non-C locales. > > regards, tom lane I run locale på in the container and found that the appropriate locale is called en_US.utf8, ie. not en_US.UTF-8... Problem now solved! Thank you all!